OldSkool - Bootstrap 5 HTML Responsive Template

Overview

OldSkool is a modern & flexible responsive HTML Bootstrap 5 template with customizable card listings on the category page and an excellent product display on the individual product page. It's the perfect starting point for any fashion retail website, and the template's clean and minimal design means it's easy to modify and painless to integrate with your custom Ecommerce application. And above all, it's free!

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Requirements
Quick Start
Template Pages
Demo Link
Template Key Features
Template File Structure
Handlebars
Template JSON Data
Customise Template Styles
Create New Pages
Bootstrap Documentation
Credits
Contact Us

Requirements

If you do not intend to work with the template source code (and that means you will not be compiling it or running the Webpack dev server), you do not need to install anything. You can simply navigate to the dist folder and start editing the files.

Most developers will be editing the source code and will also be running Webpack to recompile the template files. If that's the case, then ensure that you have Node.js installed. You can download it from here

Quick Start

Download the latest release OR clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/PixelRocket-Shop/oldskool-html-bootstrap.git
Install Node.js if you don't already have it on your system.
Open the project root in your command line.
run npm install in your command line.
run npm start to start Webpack devserver.
if you want to recompile the template files (which output to the dist folder), run npm run build

Template Pages

The template consists of 10 pages:

Homepage
Category page
Product page
Cart page
Checkout pages (3x)
Login page
Register page
Forgotten password page

To keep code repetition to a minimum, we've used Handlebars.js as the templating engine and partials to quickly add the same code to different pages. We also use a Handlebars plugin for JSON data - this allows us to use loops and output a single HTML code block instead of repeating the same HTML.

Demo Link

Demo URL

Please note that this is an HTML template only. It does not connect to a database, and will not automatically work in a content management system (Wordpress etc). You will need to incorporate our code into your application.

Template Key Features

Homepage slideshow (using Swiper.js)
Built with Bootstrap 5
Fully responsive
Brand logo marquee component
Homepage featured categories component (using Swiper.js)
Instagram slideshow component (Swiper.js)
Category listing card showing sale badge, new product badge and sold out badge
Distraction-free cart and checkout pages
Login, register and forgotten password pages
Custom pagination component
Header Megamenu
Customer review component
Related products slideshow component
Offcanvas category filter display
Header cart drop down display
Slidedown search bar

Template File structure

📁 dist - Generated version of the template. Go here if you do not want to work with the template source code. But be warned: if you customise anything in this folder directly, and then later recompile the template using webpack, unless you move the dist folder out of the template, your changes will be overridden.

📁 node_modules - Directory where NPM installs dependancies. You will not see this folder until you complete the template installation. You do not need to create this folder.

📁 src - Template source code. Go here to customise your template.

📁 src/assets - Template assets such as CSS, JS, Images etc.

📁 src/data - Template JSON Data files. We use these JSON files to make your job easier to insert content into the template.

📁 src/html - Template pages. Go here to edit existing pages or add new pages.

📁 src/partials - Handlebars partial templates.

Handlebars

Handlebars is a template engine that allows us to keep our template source code as organised and as clean as possible. It cuts down on code duplication and through the use of helper functions, allows template developers to very quickly output large amounts of data with minimal code. You can read more about it here.

We use Handlebars for two main reasons: firstly, the use of Handlebars partials allows us to reference the same file in multiple HTML files and means that you only have to edit the code from a single source. If you're used to working with React or Vue, this would be the same as referencing a component. Secondly, the use of JSON data for our dummy catalogue data keeps our template code clean. We can easily output 10 dummy products on our listing page by outputting a basic Handlebars loop.

Example Handlebars Partial

Open the following file in our template: src/html/index.html.

Around line 21 you'll see the following code:

{{> swiper/swiper-homepage-hero }}

That's a Handlebars partial. That code tells Handlebars to look inside a folder called swiper (located in the partials folder) and then to find a file called swiper-homepage-hero and insert it into the index.html file when it is compiled.

There are a few important notes about our use of Handlebars partials:

All of our partials are stored inside src/partials. Do not place partials anywhere else.
We use .html as our partial file extension. We have also added .svg as a valid partial file extension.
If you have folders within folders inside your partial folder, only reference the folder the partial resides in. So "partials/header/navbars/navbar.html" would be referenced as "navbars/navbar".
Do not include the partial file extension. Note in the example above that we output "swiper-homepage-hero" and not "swiper-homepage-hero.html"

Handlebars Loops

Let's look at how we use Handlebars to keep our code base clean. Open up the category page: src/html/category.html.

Around line 40, you will find this code:

{{#if (config category-products)}}
    {{#each category-products.entries}}
        <div class="col-12 col-sm-6 col-lg-4">
            {{> listing-cards/listing-card this }}
        </div>
    {{/each}}
{{/if}}

And that's our loop for a category page. We're passing in JSON data to our Handlebars loop, then inside the loop we are referencing a Handlebars partial and passing it the data for each loop item:

{{> listing-cards/listing-card-one this }}

Template JSON Data

The Webpack Handlebars plugin that we use comes with a very handy utility that allows us to pass in JSON files as template data.

Please navigate to: src/data. Here is where our template data JSON files reside. You can edit, remove or add your own to this folder.

Again, if we reference our category page loop:

{{#if (config category-products)}}
    {{#each category-products.entries}}
        <div class="col-12 col-sm-6 col-lg-4">
            {{> listing-cards/listing-card this }}
        </div>
    {{/each}}
{{/if}}

The important part here with regards to template data is category-products.entries. What this means is that inside our data folder you will find a JSON file called "category-products". This category-products.json file has a "key" called "entries".

Customise Template Styles

All of the template's source CSS/SASS files are kept inside the template's assets folder. Navigate to src/assets/scss. Open up theme.scss with your editor.

This is the main entry point for all other SASS/CSS files.

Create New Pages

To create a new page, navigate in your code editor to: src/html. To make it easier to get the correct HTML in place, clone an existing page. Rename the newly-created file to whatever URL you require. And that's it. You are now free to open the new page with your code editor, make your changes, and then save the file. Quit Webpack devserver and restart it for the page to show up.

Bootstrap Documentation

Bootstrap already has a comprehensive documentation site that will guide you in setting up and using all default Bootstrap features. Bootstrap 5 is fully integrated to our template's source code. Please refer to Bootstrap's doc site first for any default Bootstrap features: Visit Bootstrap's Doc Site